If you select the Procedures folder of a software item, then expand that folder and finally select a single procedure, you will see the Procedure Dependencies folder in the right pane.
Expanding the Procedure Dependencies folder, you will see the procedures that the selected procedure is dependent on in the right pane.
Only installation procedures are valid for inclusion in this folder.
What does this mean? The notion of cascading is relevant here.
If cascading is used, the procedure, under which the Procedure Dependencies folder resides, will for its own execution depend on the successful execution of all procedures in its Procedure Dependencies folder (unless the check box Ignore cascading install of dependent packages was selected when setting up the job(s), or if the No linkage option was selected).
This means that when a job is to be executed, using the parent procedure of the folder as job procedure, a check is made that the software item(s), having the Procedure Dependencies folder member(s) as install procedure(s), have been installed by the successful execution of this/these procedure(s) beforehand.
If that is not the case, these procedures will be executed first (by new jobs being set up by the SD system), in the order they are listed in the folder.
At job container evaluation time, a search is made by SD to unravel all these dependencies. Jobs can be generated, and their generation in turn can generate other jobs. Each dependency generated set of jobs will precede the job that generated them.
If there are any procedures in the folder, they are listed with four characteristics, in columns, in the right pane. These are:
The name of the procedure
Indicates if the procedure is present in the library or not.
A number which denotes the order in which the procedures should be executed. See further moving procedures.
Specifies who filed the procedure, for example System.
If you use copy and paste, a context menu appears with the choice:
If you drag and drop onto the Procedure dependencies folder, a context menu appears with the choice:
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